The issues that are becoming increasingly important on the international and national plates of the policy makers and the politicians are the strategies to go about fighting corruption as well as the causes and effects, the reason that corruption takes place at all.  It is the view of the World Bank, and many others as well, the corruption is very closely linked to the success, or to the failure, economic development.  Unfortunately the concept of and the cases of corruption have not received much public attention, at least not as much attention as is necessary to rectify the situations of it and its effects.

One of the most widely used definition of corruption is paraphrased as follows, it is the use of power for the gain of an individual at the cost of others.  That is the paradigm.  Say a bookie bribes a fighter to throw a boxing match, this is an example, even though it does not involve offices held by public officials, it is still corruption.

Corruption comes in all forms of human behavior, from people lying on the witness stand to police officers taking bribes for not writing out traffic tickets.  What organizations are trying to accomplish is a sound definition when it applies to specific moral or legal criminal offenses.  Bribery is considered to be one of the quintessential examples of corruption.  But so too is nepotism to a certain degree.  Nepotism does not exactly imply that the individual offering the favor will be required something in return, it is simply preference given.

The exemplification of corruption is varied and far reaching, and involves acts much more numerous that bribery alone.  Other examples are when political leader uses their influence to have someone at the voting booth stuff fake ballots into the box or when a police man fabricates his reports to create evidence that will secure a conviction.  These are just a few examples that are locally based, and give weight to those forms of corruption that affect an entire nation.

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